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Innocence triggers life-altering family drama.
"What I Did" plucks on the tender strings of anyone who's faced the repercussions of a split-second decision. It's a gripping narrative that reminds us our most innocent actions can spiral into profound consequences. This read grips the heart with its portrayal of how a child's simple decision can echo through a family, making it a resonant choice for anyone intrigued by the complexities of human actions and relationships.
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ISBN: 9780062121691
Authors:
Christopher Wakling
Publisher: William Morrow
Date of Publication: 2012-06-29
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 3.36
(rated by 426 readers)
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"This is family life today at its most warm and messy, bored and raging….I LOVED IT.”—Emma Donoghue, author of the New York Times bestseller Room. What I Did by Christopher Wakling is a truly astonishing novel—the chronicle of a family crisis that is equal parts hilarity, poignancy, and horror, told in the singular voice of a most precocious youngster. Room meets The Slap meets The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Wakling’s tour de force concerns one rash act that pitches a six-year-old boy and his hapless parents into the center of a social services maelstrom. What I Did is contemporary fiction at its most enthrallingly original—poignant, powerful, and extremely funny—a miraculous work that prompted London’s Daily Mail to declare it “the novel that should have won the Booker prize.”
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Innocence triggers life-altering family drama.
"What I Did" plucks on the tender strings of anyone who's faced the repercussions of a split-second decision. It's a gripping narrative that reminds us our most innocent actions can spiral into profound consequences. This read grips the heart with its portrayal of how a child's simple decision can echo through a family, making it a resonant choice for anyone intrigued by the complexities of human actions and relationships.
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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